Android Text To Speech Male Voice

I have a working text to speech but I was wondering instead of a female voice when the app calls it to be played it will do a male voice instead?

Solution 1:

It is now possible to use male/female voice and change it from App UI dynamically. Define TTS like this (add google tts engine in constructor):

tts = new TextToSpeech(context, this, "com.google.android.tts");

contex = activity/app

this= TextToSpeech.OnInitListener

From tts.getVoices() list, chose your desired voice by it's name like this:

for (Voice tmpVoice : tts.getVoices()) {
        if (tmpVoice.getName().equals(_voiceName)) {
            return tmpVoice;
            break;
        }
}

N.B: U need to set _voiceName by getting hard coded voice_name from tts.getVoices(). e.g: for English male it would be: "en-us-x-sfg#male_1-local"

Solution 2:

It is possible to change voice into male

here is my code,hope it will help you!

//onCreate  
T2S= new TextToSpeech(testApp.getInstance().getApplicationContext(), this, "com.google.android.tts");
    Set<String> a=new HashSet<>();
    a.add("male");//here you can give male if you want to select male voice.
    Voice v=new Voice("en-us-x-sfg#male_2-local",new Locale("en","US"),400,200,true,a);
    T2S.setVoice(v);
    T2S.setSpeechRate(0.8f);

implements TextToSpeech.OnInitListener on Activity.

@Override
public void onInit(int status) {
    if (status == TextToSpeech.SUCCESS) {
        Set<String> a=new HashSet<>();
        a.add("male");//here you can give male if you want to select male voice.
        //Voice v=new Voice("en-us-x-sfg#female_2-local",new Locale("en","US"),400,200,true,a);
        Voice v=new Voice("en-us-x-sfg#male_2-local",new Locale("en","US"),400,200,true,a);
        T2S.setVoice(v);
        T2S.setSpeechRate(0.8f);

       // int result = T2S.setLanguage(Locale.US);
        int result = T2S.setVoice(v);

        if (result == TextToSpeech.LANG_MISSING_DATA
                || result == TextToSpeech.LANG_NOT_SUPPORTED) {
            Log.e("TTS", "This Language is not supported");
        } else {
           // btnSpeak.setEnabled(true);
            speakOut(mMessageVoice);
        }

    } else {
        Log.e("TTS", "Initilization Failed!");
    }
}

And add this function also:

private void speakOut(String message) {

    t1.speak(message, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null);
}